The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-01-13

The Little Slanderer, Again.
The social structure of the Christian
world is founded on a basis of truth-tell-
ing, for otherwise there would he no con-
fidence to enable transactions and harmo-
NOUS intercourse between man and man,
and each one would be watching his fell
low as rogue watches rogue, the only
bond holding communities together being
that mutually of a common 'ascality
which would be self compromising in the
general competition of being as wicked
and false as possible instead of as honest
and truthful as possible, which is now the
governing rule of society. One who does
not conform to this rule has no part in the
Christian civilization Of the age, is out of
place, and properly pertains to those COM
munities of heathendom where a certain
degree OF civilization is conjoined with
moral debasement. We are led to
these very solemn reflections by
the contemplation of the editor of
the Times Union as he stands promi-
rently out upon the surface of Florida
journalism in such bad distinction of ut
ter unreliability as is shared by few other
sinners-for he is one upon whose state
ments no man can rely merely because
they are his statements-one who has
piled falsehood upon falsehood in his war
fare with the FLoRIDIAN yet not war
fare, but vicious swapping back of falsi-
ties as we have dashed him with the rod
of truth. We weary of our endless task
of castigation, and fear we weary our
readers, while he does not seem to mind
it &ll! What is to be done with him-a
moral pachy derm who "bobs up serenely"
with another lie just when we have made
such singing exposure VI his last pre-
vious as would excruciate a person with
any sense Of shame, and make him hunt
hole to hide himself from the face of
mankind? He is problem, puzzle,
but he is not alone, though each one dis
covered is a surprise, and each reminds
us that there are human beings who pre-
sent such unusual mental and moral con-
ditions as place them outside of the usual
rules by which their fellow-creatures are
judged, and make them subjects of phi
losophic investigation, as being "built
that way" Such an one is the subject
under treatment, whose case We have
YEARLY Investigated for long time past
only to arrive at the conclusion that it is
hopeless-shat he il what he is because
he can't help it, nor can any other man
help him.
His last rejoinder to an exposure of fall
sity by the FLoRIDIAN would be childish
if it were guileless, but it is meant to de
ceive the most superficial of readers, or
those who hal not read this paper, and
see but one side of the matter at issue
and hence We must briefly state
the case: He denied that the print
ing section was in the Convention
journal; we quoted the proceedings in
full, making the two parts of the section
distinctive by atalic he rejoins by quot
ing and garbling, putting but one of the
separated parts of the section in italic to
convey the impression that he WAS correct
in his statement, and that all of the Sec
ton was not there, and then boldly reit-
crates that it is UNDERSTANDING to face
down fact by the bold effrontery Of false
hood. But why follow this thimblerig-
ging shulder in his roguery of language
this malicious little flea of journalism who
when you put your finger on him is not
there, but has skipped off to bite some
where elsa petty prosecutor of gentle
men who would never recognize his exist
ence unless forced to by his intrusive i'm
pertinence Tor malevolence. So it is that
he continues to intimate that the FLoR1D-
IAN suppressed copy furnished by the
Convention, and that we are compelled to
notice him.